Sentence examples for raising pay for from inspiring English sources

Toys RR" Us is redesigning its stores and raising pay for employees in an effort to overcome the company's reputation as a messy warehouse with poor service.

But this year, in the wake of deep cuts in the state's public education budget, some Republican candidates are talking about getting more money into classrooms by raising pay for teachers.

The Guardian's Adam Gabbatt ( @adamgabbatt) reports: "I would like to hear him speak about corporate greed, for one, about raising pay for companies that can afford to pay more," said Sonnier-Jang.

The referendum, union leaders said, would pull thousands of struggling families a rung higher on the economic ladder — raising pay for about 6,500 workers in the city, on and off airport property — and would give paid sick days to many of those workers for the first time.

spoke out in favor of raising pay for members.

Now, more and more cities and states are increasing their minimum wages, raising pay for millions of workers and showing that social change can happen very rapidly.

The sums raised pay for an engineer to live in the village and fix its pipes.

McDonald's will raise pay for 90,000 of its US employees starting on 1 July.

They took on the banks and persuaded schools, hospitals and even Westfield shopping centre to raise pay for workers.

And at the insistence of security-screening companies, a number of carriers have raised pay for airport screeners.

Mr. Romer also attacked Mr. Hancock in television ads, blasting him, for example, for voting to raise pay for city workers in 2007, while on the City Council.